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tulips..
the first ones
since my mother's passing

Wow. This is courageous writing. Thank you.

mourning my mother
I step on every crack
in the sidewalk

Thanks for the good reviews and kind words.

Thanks Gyppo, Tracy, and DocCon for your replies. I'm so glad you liked this one. I have dealt with death and fear this year, and now that spring has arrived I'm hoping for better things.

Empty, today of all days when it is convenient to remember.   Letters eroded, discolored, evidence of everyone, of no one,   stories unlike those at hospitals and airports, where departures are balanced with arrivals.   Here, there is only loss.   We sleuth around markers in search of a familiar na...

Tracy and Gyppo, thanks for your responses.

I lost my mother on January 3. This was written for her birthday.

Janet_R wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2019 1:07 pm

This is heartbreakingly beautiful. You've used so few words to say so much.

Thanks Janet.

Everywhere. Paint by number cats and unnamed hamlets. A Christie thriller halved with recipes. The tv room without her soaps, the kitchen where she doesn’t sing. Empty beds where marigolds had grown, goldenrod that flares up anyway. The family that makes an effort now. A vessel for her ruins - saliv...

The obvious statements of silence,
a wreath dropping its flowers,
pictures of reasons for movement,
the white sky that changes its shape,
an alternate universe in the brass door handle. 

My reflection staring back